Brain Drain Reversal Policies in a Post-Pandemic Era: A Comparative and Diasporic Approach

סמינר החוג למדיניות ציבורית

יום רביעי 8 ביוני 2022 שעה 11:00

חדר 203 בנין נפתלי, הפקולטה למדעי החברה

מרצה: William F.S. Miles

Fulbright Global Scholar

Department of Political Science

Northeastern University, Boston USA

Brain Drain Reversal Policies in a Post-Pandemic Era:

 A Comparative and Diasporic Approach  

Abstract

Throughout the Global South, net exporters of intellectual human capital have long experimented with various strategies for mitigating, if not reversing, “brain drain” from their respective nations. An ancillary objective has been to encourage reengagement of members of those nations’ diasporas with their respective homelands.  The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global disruption with implications for cross-border movement in general and formal migration of skilled workers in particular.  This project represents a comparative study of public and private efforts to attract the return or reengagement of high-value expatriates from three countries over the last four decades.  Policy implications in the wake of massive socio-economic changes occasioned by pandemic-related suspension in international movement are assessed. The three case studies are Israel, India, and Morocco.